sempre

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The verdict

“sempre” is uncommon German (frequency #99,078 among 8,027 “S” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#99,078
frequency rank, German
8,027
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - immer, stets, allzeit, jederzeit, jedesmal

Corpus desk

Index DE-sempre · sempre · German

sempre · rank #99,078 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #99,078
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,027
  • PHOTO-FINISH selbstverstän…

Nearest frequency peer: selbstverständliches (-1 rank slots)

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „sempre“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „sempre“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for sempre
PropertyValue
Headwordsempre
LanguageGerman
Part of speechAdverb
IPA[…]
Letters6
Frequency rank#99,078
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „sempre“ im Deutschen

Die Häufigkeit läuft von den wenigen Alltagswörtern (links) bis zur langen, seltenen Schwanzseite (rechts).semprefällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Achse ist logarithmisch: jeder Tick markiert etwa zehnfach geringere Häufigkeit. Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „selbstverständliches“ (#99,077), „Sendemast“ (#99,079), „Senkrechtstarter“ (#99,080). Unter 8,027 „S“-Lemmata liegt „sempre“ bei #99,078. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sempre is uncommon German at frequency #99,078 among 8,027 “S” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed […]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "immer, stets, allzeit, jederzeit, jedesmal".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sempre, suggesting the orthography follows predictable German patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is sempre, spelled S-E-M-P-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    immer, stets, allzeit, jederzeit, jedesmal

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how sempre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Iste puera ha sempre fame.

Antonyms

nunquam

This word in other languages

always(English)siempre(Español)toujours(Français)sempre(Português)

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sempre"?
"sempre" is spelled S-E-M-P-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "sempre" mean?
As an adverb, "sempre" means: immer, stets, allzeit, jederzeit, jedesmal
How do you pronounce "sempre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "sempre" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "sempre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

speien#99,104spähte#99,117sterbt#99,134stoppe#99,141

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list